Conan Gray "Alley Rose" Official Lyrics & Meaning | Genius Verified

I think a valley Rose is my very first love song it's not a song about hating someone it's very much a song where I look at something that happened and I I'm really grateful I could go through anything as long as I write a good song about it it's [Music] chill I wrote Ali Rose right after I got dumped I've never been dumped before and I was in my first relationship and it was devastating dating 10 out of 10 recommend it's really fun it's really formative really changes you as a person I was flying to London in order to see this person that I was um dating at least I thought I was I landed in London and then got dumped immediately over text message on the airplane it was hilarious like of course that's what happened for my first breakup ever then I was just in London with no one to see and nothing to do and so the idea for Ali Rose popped up in my mind essentially in my mind I was like walking on Abby Road so the song was originally called Abby Rad but then I figured I probably shouldn't name my favorite song off of my new album found heaven after the most famous album of all time I picked you up from the corner store your eyes were red and your lips were toin so much to say that's subjects sore so much you changed since you were born when you're in a relationship there are like these weird things where you feel like you can't really talk about them the biggest problem that can arise in any relationship whether it's a friendship or you know family or you're dating someone is just miscommunication it was just this situation where I could tell a ton of in life was being held onto this person and I knew that there was so much more than I could really understand stand because they were never going to tell me you wrapped your fingers around my neck and pulled me into your desperate breath the way you kissed me hard and fast I knew it' be the last I think in every relationship you have this moment it's so hard to explain you don't know why but you just know deep in your heart that for whatever reason it's the end I remember this moment so clearly I could just feel something in the air and I called my best friend the next morning and I was like I just have this weird feeling that that was the last time I'm ever going to see that person and she was like no no what are you talking it's fine like you're just being paranoid and then I got dumped don't leave me hanging alone again don't leave me hanging alone again oh you go go Ali Rose you go go go so I came up with the name Ali Rose because I wanted something that you didn't really think too hard when you heard the name the beauty of Music which goes against genius in every way is it can mean whatever it means to you as a person you know so I mostly just wanted it to make people just uh think but also not think at all it's a name that makes you think of somebody in particular but also of nobody you told me I'm just so nervous dear well how the hell do you think I feel I waited all year at your feet like maybe you'd love me so the quote in the second verse is something that this person used to say to me all the time where they were always like oh like why are you so nervous like why are you so freaked out I was really scared because I was really close friends with this person and my biggest fear in our relationship was that we'd stop being friends and then life happens love happens happens and then you you stop being friends more than even losing someone today like I couldn't care less about that because I'd never even dated people in my life the thing that was most devastating to me was losing a friend so that's why I wanted to say in that first like this is why I was nervous like of course this is how I feel but you're probably not going to be friends with your ex let's be real and I don't even care if it makes me sound insane I ran my fingers through your hair and I thank God to touch the flame cuz I swore necks were made for bruising I swore lips were made for lies and I thought if you'd ever leave me that I'd be the reason why I always thought that if I were to end up going through a breakup that I was going to be the person who just like dumped this person because I'm so afraid of like true intimacy which is just like something I've always dealt with I thought necks were made for bruising I thought lips were made for lies because every experience of love that I'd grown up with or you know witnessing my friends or witnessing my family growing up and things I'd never really seen love work out so I figured since that was all I'd ever known I would probably just end up doing the same so in a way getting dumped was like a really nice surprise for me cuz I was like oh okay so like it's fine like uh maybe I'm not going to commit the sins of my parents um yeah and I don't even care if it's just a summer flame if it's all experimental and you go back to sa for things but I swore hands were made for fighting I swore eyes were made to cry but you're the first person that I've seen who's proven that might be a lie I used to always think of everything as so black and white life isn't like that nothing is black and white there can be good things that happen along with the bad and they come together so um this whole Bridges me saying I thought all of these things but actually you're the first person who's ever proven me wrong and shown me that it doesn't always have to be that way and even though things ended bad there's still so much good that came out of it don't leave me hanging alone again I thought that I was your only [Music] friend so I'm like a huge loner I have like three friends and they're super close and they mean everything to me this person was one of them I wanted to end the song with like I thought that I was your only friend because it's just one last moment I was like that was sad because we were really close friends and hopefully every every relationship that you experience in life is someone that you would consider a friend cuz you'd be surprised some people are not dating their friends and that's not a good thing I think you should date people that you like there's nothing better to do in life than to be heartbroken listening to really depressing music walk around in London it's actually my favorite activity on Earth I've been doing genius interviews since I was 18 or 19 and I'm 25 now it's weird it's like this little time capsule of my entire life as an adult is just here and it's very nice to be back

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Length: 7min 17sec (437 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 15 2024